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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409075899
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Peter Pan




'All children, except one, grow up.' Peter Pan

Wendy, Michael and John are sleeping when the window of their nursery blows open and lets in a very remarkable boy, Peter Pan, and his fairy, Tinker Bell. Peter soon entices the three children from their beds and out through the window to Neverland. There, they encounter mermaids, fairies, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily and her tribe, and do battle with an villainous gang of pirates and their leader, the sinister Captain Hook, in a magical adventure which has enchanted generations of children and adults alike.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409075899
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

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About the author

J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in 1860 near Dundee in Scotland. He was the son of a weaver. He was educated at Glasgow Academy, Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University. After working as a journalist in Nottingham he went to London and wrote for various newspapers and journals there. Between 1891 and 1902 Barrie published several successful novels and plays. Peter Pan, his greatest work, was first performed as a play in 1904. Although the original idea for Peter Pan appeared in an earlier adult novel, The Little White Bird, the full 'story' version for children was not set down on paper until 1911. J. M. Barrie died in 1937.

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Praise for Peter Pan

Peter Pan is one of those very British stories which deals with anxiety about emotion. It's about the dread of growing up - a subject about which author J.M. Barrie felt very strongly. He then turned this fear into a myth which touches everybody

Christopher Biggins, Daily Mail

Intensely moving as well as enchanting in its evocation of childhood, the heartlessness of youth and parental grief as children grow older

Daily Telegraph

One of the classic children's stories of all time

Daily Mail

Peter Pan is one of those very British stories which deals with anxiety about emotion. It's about the dread of growing up - a subject about which author J.M. Barrie felt very strongly. He then turned this fear into a myth which touches everybody

Christopher Biggins, Daily Mail

Intensely moving as well as enchanting in its evocation of childhood, the heartlessness of youth and parental grief as children grow older

Daily Telegraph

One of the classic children's stories of all time

Daily Mail